The Lab
Dr. Chris Tape 🇬🇧
Group Leader
Chris received his Ph.D. from Prof. Gillian Murphy's lab at the CRUK Cambridge Institute (University of Cambridge). He was then awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship between The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) (with Dr. Claus Jorgensen and Prof. Chris Marshall) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (with Prof. Doug Lauffenburger) to study how oncogenes signal across multiple cell types in cancer. Chris now leads the Cell-Communication Lab at UCL CI under a CRUK Career Development Fellowship (supported by the CRUK Werth Trust).
E-mail: c.tape@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @christophertape
Postdocs
Dr. James Opzoomer 🇬🇧 🇨🇦
Postdoctoral Research Associate
James received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from McGill University before pursuing a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Tumour Immunology at King’s College London. James is developing multimodal single-cell technologies to study inter- and intra-cellular signalling in tumour microenvironment organoids.
E-mail: j.opzoomer@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @j_opzoomer
Dr. Xiao Qin 🇨🇳
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Xiao received her B.Sc. in Biological Science from Peking University followed by a D.Phil in Clinical Medicine from the University of Oxford. Xiao is using single-cell technologies to study how oncogenic mutations communicate through stromal and immune cell-types in colorectal cancer.
E-mail: x.qin@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @QinXiao1990
Research Assistants
Ewa Basiarz 🇵🇱
Research Assistant
Ewa studied Biomedical Science B.Sc.at the University of Surrey followed by M.Res in Reproductive Science and Women’s Health at University College London. Ewa is developing autologous patient-derived microenvironment models of colorectal cancer to study patient-specific chemo- and immunotherapy responses.
E-mail: ewa.basiarz.21@ucl.ac.uk
Jahangir Sufi 🇬🇧
Research Assistant
Jahangir studied Biomedical Science B.Sc. at Imperial College London followed by a M.Sc. in Cancer, Molecular Pathology, and Genomics at the Barts Cancer Institute. Jahangir is developing novel mass cytometry methods to study single-cell signalling in solid epithelial tumour models.
E-mail: j.sufi@ucl.ac.uk
Petra Vlckova 🇨🇿
Research Assistant
Petra earned her B.Sc. in Biomedicine at Birkbeck College followed by a M.Sc. in Cancer Biology from University College London. Petra is building advanced 3D co-culture models of colorectal cancer using organoids, fibroblasts, macrophages, and T cells.
Petra leads the Organoid Translational Technology Platform at the CRUK City of London Centre.
E-mail: petra.vlckova.16@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @Petra47715998
Students
Callum Nattress 🇬🇧
MB.Ph.D. Student
Callum is studying for an MBPhD at University College London. Callum is using patient derived organoids and single-cell technologies to investigate engineered γδ T cells as novel biotherapeutics for colorectal cancer.
Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Jon Fisher
Co-Supervisor: Prof. John Anderson
E-mail: callum.nattress.19@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @CallumNattress
Corinne Molyneux 🇬🇧
Ph.D. Student
Corinne studied Pharmacology at the University of Bath followed by the R&D Graduate Programme at AstraZeneca. Corinne is performing single-cell co-culture organoid CRISPR screening to study stromal drug protection mechanisms in CRC.
Secondary Supervisor: Prof. Daniel Hochhauser
E-mail: corinne.molyneux.22@ucl.ac.uk
Rhianna O’Sullivan 🇬🇧
Ph.D. Student
Rhianna studied Biomedical Sciences at Nottingham Trent followed by a M.Res. in Cancer Biology at Imperial College London and the R&D Graduate Programme at AstraZeneca. Rhianna is using TOBis MC to study patient-specific PDO-CAF interactions in CRC.
Secondary Supervisor: Prof. Erik Sahai
E-mail: rhianna.osullivan.21@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @Rhianna_Shannon
Ferran Cardoso Rodriguez 🇪🇸
Ph.D. Student
Ferran earned his B.Sc in Biotechnology at the University of Barcelona followed by a M.Sc. in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology from Imperial College London. Ferran is exploring novel computational approaches to study the colorectal cancer tumour microenvironment using high-dimensional multimodal single-cell data.
Secondary Superviser: Prof. Javier Herrero
E-mail: ferran.cardoso.19@ucl.ac.uk
Personal Site: https://ferranc96.github.io
Twitter: @FerranC96
María Ramos Zapatero 🇪🇸
Ph.D. Student
María studied Biotechnology at CEU San Pablo University followed by M.Sc. in Cancer Research at the University of Lyon. María is using TOBis MC to study patient-specific drug responses in colorectal cancer tumour microenvironment organoids.
Secondary Supervisor: Prof. Daniel Hochhauser
E-mail: maria.ramos.19@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @Maria_Ramos_Z
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